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Aion Mods ([personal profile] aionmods) wrote in [community profile] aionooc2022-03-02 03:00 pm

OOC INTRO + EVENT PLOTTING

Intros & Event Plotting
GAME OPENING
Welcome to Aion Teleos's first OOC mingle, as well as its first event plotting post! In the future these two things may be posted separately, but given that the event will be posted on Friday, it made the most sense to combine them for the game's opening. The general details of the coming event will be posted below to give you an idea of what your characters will be doing for the next month. Please note that sects will not be confirmed until later in the month, depending on your character's reaction to the intro event.

THINGS TO NOTE
◆ NETWORK: Following this event, the communion network will be active! These are awakened as part of choosing a sect. Pleroma characters won't receive any immediate instructions on how to use these powers, but they are welcome to figure them out on their own. Kenoma will have it explained to them by certain NPCs in the Regent's forces.

◆ TIMELINE: The timeline for the for this first month will be a bit condensed. The event itself will ICly be occurring over the period of a bit over a week, but playtime has been scheduled to last until the end of the month. Timing wise, the events of the TDM will have been considered to happen in the first half of the Horos equivalent of March. The intro event will happen in the second half of March. From there, the timeline should go back to a 1:1 ratio.


THE EMPTY THRONE
The ritual promised in the game's first TDM is at hand. Escorted down to a massive cavern beneath the ruins, characters will made to participate in a disquieting ceremony - one that invokes the Kenoma and forcefully infects them with it. Trapped within the cavern by their captors, they'll be forced to wait out the infection's effects, with only sparse supplies being offered to them and clothing that does nothing to stand up against the cold of these subterranean ruins.

Your character initial attunement will ultimately be defined by their reaction to the Kenoma they've been infected with. There are two main options:

A) They reject its influence, survive its detrimental effects, and their perseverance cultivates the presence of the Pleroma. After a week or so they will be able to expel the Kenoma entirely, attune to the first tier of Pleroma, and have any powers they're missing return.

B) The presence of the Kenoma speaks to them on a spiritual level, their own despair responding to it. Though they may struggle at first, eventually they succumb, surrendering to its influence and being informed of the Regent's plans through it. Characters that accept Kenoma will be allowed out of the cavern, as long as they stay in the area and cooperate with a new NPC that will be present. Their powers will return as soon as they surrender to the Kenoma.


You DO NOT have to commit to the sect indicated on your app if these opening circumstances make you inclined to go another direction. Here are some of the plot hooks that will be present in the event information:

◆ KENOMA SICKNESS: The infection, while being resisted, will cause various detrimental effects. These include persistent dark thoughts, accidental psychic communication with other characters, involuntary transformations in line with Aion changes but based on negative self conception, and general physical illness. Your character should be affected by at least one of these things.

◆ COMPETITIVE SURVIVAL: The soldiers are giving characters a limited amount of supplies and are not attempting to distribute it evenly. Hoarding supplies is an option, and will likely result in others going hungry and/or freezing.

◆ PERSUASION: Characters who accept the Kenoma will essentially swap over to being part of the military force trapping people in the caverns. They may receive orders from an NPC asking them to 'persuade' characters who have not succumbed to the Kenoma yet by whatever means necessary, as long as it isn't killing them or using mind control.

All of this will be fleshed out further in the actual event post, this summary is just to give you an idea of what to plan for. That said, let's introduce ourselves!


INTROS & PLOTTING
PLAYER

NAME:
CONTACT:
FUN FACTS:

CHARACTER

NAME:
CANON:
LEGACY:
INTENDED SECT: Which sect you are currently shooting for.

CHARACTER PITCH: Give people an idea of what your character is like!
DESIRED CR: What kind of CR are you looking for?
OFFERED CR: What CR could your character offer to others?
PLOT HOOKS: List some general plots you are particularly interested in exploring in the Aion Teleos setting.

EVENT PLANS: What are your plans for this event in particular?

ANYTHING ELSE? You know what to do.


bloodsins: (💥 48)

[personal profile] bloodsins 2022-03-05 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
I don't blame you at all lmao... I stuck with Crestoria solely for the story and some of their really weird character choices for who they included in the gacha, but man Vicious endeared himself to me and I had to save him. So I can dunk him into despair hell. You know how it goes.

I'm not familiar with Ciel's canon, but PLEASE fret over him being a dumbass because that's just Vicious baby. He can't NOT be a dumbass. She definitely sounds like she could be a really good influence(???) on him(?????) or at the very least it sounds like some very interesting cr!!

[personal profile] expiera 2022-03-05 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
There are so many interesting characters out there too good for their canon that only does them dirty or doesn't make them suffer enough get into their full potential, that's what we're all here for amirite

Summed up in a nutshell let's say she was sorta cursed at birth, and if she wasn't born her hometown would most probably still be around. So IS it a sin to be born? Whatever one may answer depending on their morality, can't argue with the cold hard fact that aforementioned village no longer exists. There's some thematic overlap for sure whether they actually get into it at some point or not, looking forward to mutual shenanigans!
bloodsins: (💥 42)

[personal profile] bloodsins 2022-03-05 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly!! And oh man that is some EXCELLENT thematic overlap! I imagine that there will be a way for it to come up eventually through an event or something if they don't end up bringing it up themselves, and I look forward to seeing how that goes!!